Wonder Boy developer to file for bankruptcy
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Westone Bit Entertainment seems to be in serious trouble. Based on financial reports, the Wonder Boy developer will soon be filing for bankruptcy. Westone has already closed its official site in light of this news.
It’s unclear what will happen to the studio at present. If we hear something, we’ll be sure to let you know.
Club Nintendo Japan adds AR card holder
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Club Nintendo Japan has been updated with yet another reward. For 300 points, users can obtain the AR card holder. The card holder can be fitted with up to 36 cards of roughly 86mm × 54mm in size.
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Photos of the Amiibo cases
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Last week, Amazon Germany listed Super Mario World, Super Mario question block, and 1UP mushroom Amiibo cases. Images have since surfaced for the latter two products, which you can find below.
We also have a tiny bit of news regarding the publisher of the Amiibo cases. Amazon Germany originally listed Gioteck as the manufacturer, but it now appears that PowerA is actually making the various products.
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Sakurai’s full comments on Smash Bros. 3DS online lag
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Yesterday, we posted a few comments from Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai regarding concerns fans may have when it comes to playing online with the 3DS game. Kotaku now has the full blurb from Sakurai’s latest Famitsu column.
Below are his entire comments:
“Connectivity can depend heavily on location so I really don’t know what to say. At the very least, we’ve confirmed that smooth play is possible under various conditions of external networks. During multi-player, you’re connected with another player and sending light amounts of data back and forth, so if the game feels laggy, it’s due to the connection speed. If you play when it’s laggy, then the person you’re playing with will experience the same lag, so it’s best to play when the connection is clear. During development, there were cases where we had too many people and the connection became sluggish, so we turned off our cell phones and the connection would clear up. It’s best to avoid playing while streaming something or by a tethered connection. Free wi-fi spots are probably not very good either.”
One more quote from Sakurai as well. On the topic of his favorite character, he had this to say: “I don’t have one. However, for this game, I tend to like the heavier fighters.”
Nintendo UK co-promotion with Petits Filous Frube
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NINTENDO UK CO-PROMOTION WITH PETITS FILOUS FRUBES
Nintendo UK team up with Petits Filous Frubes for Super Mario Promotion
1st October, 2014 – Nintendo UK today announces a co-promotion with Yoplait which will see some of Nintendo’s most iconic characters take centre stage on the packaging of the popular Petits Filous Frubes snack.
With Mario, Luigi, Toadette, Baby Peach, Waluigi and Wario featuring individually on the Vanilla Flavour and Bowser Jr., Peach, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Super Star, Koopa Troopa, Daisy, Yoshi, Bowser, Goomba and Boo on the Strawberry flavour – everyone will have a chance to have their favourite character join them for lunch!
With each pack of Petits Filous Frubes, you have the chance to win one of 100s of prizes from Nintendo 2DS systems to Nintendo goody bags! To see if you’ve won, just enter the secret code on the inside of your Petits Filous Frubes Super Mario pack at http://supermariofrubes.com/.
Launching at the start of October and available in stores across the UK, the promotion will run until 30th April 2015.
Source: Nintendo PR
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Nyannyan Neko Mario Time episode 21
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Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was considered for a Nintendo Power giveaway
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The Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 almost made it to North America through a Nintendo Power giveaway, author Jon Irwin reveals in an upcoming book. Gail Tilden, former vice president of brand management at Nintendo of America and one of Nintendo Power’s founding editors, divulged to Irwin that she led a campaign that would allow subscribers to obtain a copy.
“We weren’t doing anything with it! [So] I worked up with my Nintendo Power agency a campaign called ‘The Lost Levels,’” Tilden said.
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Nintendo won’t have a booth at New York Comic-Con 2014
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A representative from Nintendo of America has confirmed that the company will not have a booth at this year’s Comic-Con.
This marks the first time in four years that Nintendo will not be having a presence at NYCC. In 2013, Eiji Aonuma stopped by and hosted a panel for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.
